Update – Sept. 5, 2024, at 2:11 p.m. Ugandan Olympic runner Rebecca Cheptegei has reportedly passed away at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated for burns sustained in a fire attack allegedly ...

Rebecca Cheptegei competes in the World Athletics Championship's women's marathon in Budapest, Hungary, in 2023. (Dylan Martinez/Reuters) Ugandan Olympian Rebecca Cheptegei died Thursday, four days ...

Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically and senselessly lost her life due to an extreme case of domestic violence. Cheptegei, a marathon runner who competed for Uganda at the 2024 ...

Ugandan Olympic marathoner Rebecca Cheptegei has tragically passed away from "full organ failure" just four days after her boyfriend, Dickson Ndiema, allegedly doused her with gasoline and set her on ...

Rebecca Cheptegei, a Ugandan marathon runner who competed in the Paris Olympics last month, has died days after she was burned by her boyfriend, the country’s athletics federation confirmed on X, ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei has died at a Kenyan hospital where she was being treated after 80% of her body was burned in an attack by her partner. She was 33. The ...

On Aug. 11, Rebecca Cheptegei finished in the middle of the pack of the women's marathon at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Weeks later, she was fighting for her life at a hospital in Kenya. At the time, ...

KINYORO, Kenya (Reuters) -On the morning of Sunday Sept. 1, Olympic marathon runner Rebecca Cheptegei was preparing to go to church from her home in the highlands of western Kenya. Her ex-boyfriend ...

Rebecca Cheptegei’s former partner has died from injuries sustained in the attack that killed the Ugandan Olympic athlete. Dickson Ndiema was pronounced dead on Monday, September 9, at Moi Teaching ...

Joshua Cheptegei is running 140 to 160 kilometers a week in preparation for his marathon debut in Valencia on December 3, through relentless mud in Uganda. At his training camp in Kapchorwa, Uganda, ...